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SNP leader and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tells Today she "would want the SNP to be part of a progressive alternative" at Westminster if the election results in a hung Parliament.

She argues that the electorate wants parties to talk to each other but she rejects taking part in a coalition.

Despite a narrowing of the Conservatives' poll lead, Ms Sturgeon believes that Theresa May is still on course to win, but possibly not with a bigger majority.

Her message to voters in Scotland is: "Let's not elect Tory MPs to be rubber stamps for Theresa May.

"Scotland could constrain and keep the Tories in check by making sure we don't throw Theresa May a lifeline."

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Ruth Davidson is asked if she supports the UK party's target to cut net migration to the tens of thousands, having backed single market membership for the UK which means free movement.

"I campaigned for Remain," the Scottish Conservative leader says. "Of course I wanted to stay within the single market."

However, voters backed Brexit and the task now is to secure a deal ensuring "the ability of Scots and UK businesses to trade freely abroad", she tells the Today programme.

"As those powers come back here, we need to organise a managed migration system which will bring migration down over a period of time, while still saying that we're a welcoming country."

She defends holding an EU referendum, as the decision "was so big it couldn't be made by politicians alone", contrasting her respect for the result with the SNP wanting to re-run the 2014 Scottish independence referendum "again and again and again".

It will come as no surprise to most of you that political parties are spending much more money on targeted digital advertising on Facebook.

Something pops up in your Facebook feed. It says that Jeremy Corbyn is a threat to national security. Or that Theresa May is too scared to debate.

And yet the same advert isn't in your friend's feed. So how did they know to target you?

During the 2015 election, the UK's political parties spent about £1.6m on ads and other media that ran online. The majority of that cash, external, £1.3m, was paid to Facebook. The Conservatives accounted for £1.2m of that spend.

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Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson says the Tories' general election polling is "in the mid-40s, which is higher even than Tony Blair got in his 1997 landslide".

She concedes that Labour has narrowed the gap but claims it is mainly due to a "disastrous Liberal Democrat campaign".

The Scottish Conservatives are the opposition in the Scottish Parliament and are the only party "with the strength to take on the SNP", she adds.

Presenter Nick Robinson asks her about a policy difference with Theresa May: the Scottish Conservatives are not proposing means-testing the winter fuel allowance for pensioners.

"The issue is a devolved issue," Ms Davidson says. The Tories have decided to means test the allowance in England and to put money into social care, but "in Scotland we have a different social care model".

She declares: "Politics is about hard choices and this is the choice I choose to make."

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The Lib Dems used to be in coalition with Labour in the Scottish Parliament and with the Conservatives at Westminster from 2010 to 2015.

However, Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie rules out another deal with either party following the 2017 general election.

"We couldn't possibly, with something so monumental as Brexit, with Jeremy Corbyn effectively backing up a hard Brexit of Theresa May, do a deal with either of them.

"We'll do it vote by vote, we'll campaign on the issues to get a better deal on Brexit."

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The Conservative party in Scotland is seeking to reinvent itself as the country that will save the union and stand up to the SNP. Will this shore up their support from a historically anti-Tory country?

Nick Robinson reports from East Renfrewshire to find out how attitudes towards Conservatives have changed.

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Willie Rennie, leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, disputes suggestions that the party has not staged a comeback in 2017 from its bad result in 2015.

The party was left with just one MP in Scotland in 2015 and only eight across the UK.

Mr Rennie tells Today that "lots of people" who have previously supported the Conservatives, Labour and SNP are "coming our way".

He claims that "the shine has come off the SNP Scottish government".

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Speaking to Today, Gerald Coyne, whose bid to oust Len McCluskey as the leader of the Unite union was defeated in April, said:

"The full weight of the union machine was used against me and as this is not North Korea, we are a democratic country and it's a democratic organisation, then I have the opportunity to call out that activity and the use of that machine to an independent arbiter."

Today report Ross Hawkins says this is "a row about a huge powerbase in the Labour movement".

A Unite spokesman has said that "members will be deeply disappointed" that Mr Coyne has chosen to raise the matter now, though he insists the timing of the challenge was dictated by legal requirements, not the general election.

Len McCluskey is a support of Jeremy Corbyn and Ross says the row is, in effect, a "proxy war" over Mr Crobyn's leadership of the Labour Party - a battle of Labour's right and left.

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A bid to oust Len McCluskey as the leader of the Unite union is to be launched later.

The trade union regulator will be asked to rule that Unite's recent general secretary election - which Mr McCluskey won by 5,500 votes - was invalid.

The defeated candidate in the contest, Gerard Coyne, says his supporters suffered bullying and intimidation.

A spokeswoman for Unite said its members would be deeply disappointed by the timing of the announcement.

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Change in the NHS is expensive and also politically difficult - so what are parties promising?

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Theresa May has come under pressure from opposition parties following President Donald Trump's decision to pull the US out of the 2015 Paris climate agreement.

The prime minister has told Donald Trump of her "disappointment" but BBC political correspondent Leila Nathoo says Labour has accused Mrs May of a "dereliction of duty".

She says Labour has called the US move "an act of global generational vandalism".

The Liberal Democrats have also called on Mrs May to try to use her influence on the US President.

Mrs May has stressed that the UK remains committed to the Paris agreement, which commits the US and 187 other countries to keeping global temperatures rises "well below" 2C (3.6F) and "endeavour to limit" them even more, to 1.5C.

Defending the government's decision not to sign the declaration, Chief Treasury Secretary David Gauke said on BBC Newsnight: "Different countries will take different approaches in how we choose to express our opinion."

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The Conservatives have promised to cut corporation tax to 17% if elected next week - one of the lowest rates among industrialised economies - whereas Labour plans to raise it to 26%.

But won't the cut benefit big businesses much more than small companies, the Tory minister David Gauke is asked on Wake Up to Money.

No, he says. "A good business environment benefits big businesses and small businesses."

He also points to research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) that workers ultimately benefit from lower corporation taxes. "What happens is you increase investment, investment increases productivity, and productivity is ultimately what drives living standards, wages and salaries," he says.

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BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith says that senior Tories want to reinforce the message that the migration target is just an aim. They don't want to be locked into a specific time frame to be hung round their neck.

But that aside, there is the question of whether it is even desirable to get the migration target down because of Brexit, he adds. Businesses will be going through a lot of uncertainty and there won't be enough time to train up British students and workers to replace them.

There's a feeling that if the government can just show that the numbers are coming down and that it is acting on immigration, that may be sufficient.

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Jeremy Corbyn will pledge to "drive growth across the whole of Britain" and create a million "good jobs" if Labour wins power next week.

Campaigning in York, he will say a Labour government would pump £250bn into industry through a new National Investment Bank.

He will pledge to create at least a million jobs "to rebuild communities that have been left behind".

He and Theresa May will face questions later on a BBC Question Time special.

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Welcome back to coverage from the election campaign trail.

Theresa May has signalled that the Conservatives would aim to reduce net migration to the "tens of thousands" by 2022.

The controversial target, which is in the Conservative manifesto but does not include a timeframe, has not been met since it was set by the party in 2009. But minister Brandon Lewis told the BBC the aim was to do so "over the course of the next Parliament".

Asked about the comments later, Mrs May said: "That's what we're working for."

On Thursday's Question Time, Brexit Secretary David Davis would not promise the target would be attained in five years, saying meeting it depended on "the economy, the speed with which we can get our own people trained up to take the jobs [and] the changes in the welfare to encourage people to work".

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How did the election campaign move on Thursday, less than a week until actual polling day? Here are the key points in brief:

• The day started with recriminations over Theresa May's non-attendance at last night's seven-way general election debate and complaints about audience selection
• Mrs May came out fighting over Brexit, calling for voters from both sides of the EU debate to back her to "fulfil [its] promise"
• Jeremy Corbyn warned there would be no deals, coalitions or agreements if he failed to win the election outright
• Donald Trump's decision to drop the Paris climate accord tested the leaders, with Mrs May accused of failing to stand up for it strongly enough
• Downing Street later issued a statement saying Mrs May had called Mr Trump to express her "disappoinment"
• The Tories' renewed promise to reduce immigration to the tens of thousands came under scrutiny again, with Mrs May suggesting this might be achieved by the end of the next Parliament

We're stopping our live coverage of the campaign for a few hours now but will be back again in the morning.